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Whipple Museum of the History of Science Open Monday to Friday, 12:30-4:30pm + 3rd Saturday of the month, 10am-4pm Closed bank holidays
This Saturday get hands-on with creative activities that will help shape our new Learning Gallery installation—join us for Lightworks! 🔭 🎨 Lightworks Workshop: Exploring Light, Colour & Lenses 📅 15 March ⏰ Drop in between 10–12pm & 1–3pm 💫 Free
What’s On at the Whipple Museum this February Half Term? 🔦 🌟 We’re taking part in #TwilightAtTheMuseums with @CamUnivMuseums! Grab your torch and explore our collections after dark with our space-themed family trail, Space Explorers. 🔭🪐☄️ Wednesday 19 Feb, 5-7pm. Free
📣🌟 Exhibition Talk 📣 🌟 Meet the remarkable scientific community behind the Cavendish Laboratory’s astonishing physics in this talk with Whipple Museum curator Dr Hannah Price. Free, no need to book. Saturday, 15 Feb, 2pm
Join Curator Dr. Hannah Price at 2.30pm on Saturday 18 January for a guided tour of our new exhibition, The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age. ⭐️ 📍Whipple Museum, Free School Lane ⭐️2.30pm, Saturday 18 January 🎟️Free, drop-in
🎉 We’re back on 9th Jan! 🎉 Did you know? Whipple’s very first object was a gorgeous 5-draw refracting telescope by Leonardo Semitecolo, Italy, c. 1750. 🪞✨ Bought for just 10 francs in 1913, it kicked off a lifelong collecting adventure!
🎉✨ Happy New Year from all of us at the Whipple! ✨🎉 We look forward to welcoming you in 2025! 🌟 📍 Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, Cambridge 🗓 Open Monday to Friday, 12:30–4:30 PM 🎟 Free entry! (Next Saturday opening: 18 January) #WhippleMuseum #CambridgeMuseums
⭐️Cav Christmas Countdown, Merry Christmas!⭐️ A huge thank you to everyone who visited us this year. If you haven’t yet explored our latest exhibition, The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age, we’d love to welcome you in 2025. We reopen on 9 January! 🎇
🎄 Cav Christmas Countdown: It’s Christmas Eve! ✨ Here’s a gem from 1929: Cockcroft, Allibone, W. Webster, Rose, and E.T.S. Walton—researchers from Rutherford’s Lab—gathered around a motorbike. Whose bike was it? An early Christmas gift, maybe? 🏍🌬️
🎄Cav Christmas Countdown: Day 23!🎄 WHO is the woman in Mr. Searle’s 1911 class photo? Historians are stumped, and we need your help! 🧐 Could she be your Great Aunt Mildred or a family legend? Spot her in this iconic pre-1914 Cavendish snapshot and win eternal Whipple glory!🌟
🎄 Cavendish Christmas Countdown: Day 22 – The Cav Hockey Team 🏑🎄 Festive fitness inspo? Look no further! These 1932 Cavendish scientists dominated the lab and the pitch, scoring a 4-1 win against the Botanists! 🏆Brains & brawn, then and now! 🎁💪
Cav Christmas Countdown: Day 21 !🐊 Step back to the 1930s and The Mond, a hub for groundbreaking low-temp physics and high magnetic fields. Pyotr Kapitsa nicknamed Rutherford “Crocodile” and had Eric Gill carve it into the wall! Was it his sharp wit or booming voice? You decide!
Cavendish Christmas Countdown: Day 20 – Splitting Atoms!⚛️ Today we’re spotlighting John Cockcroft, a mathematician turned physicist who, with Ernest Walton, achieved the impossible—splitting the atom! Their particle accelerator transformed lithium into helium, proving E=mc²!✨
⚛️ Cavendish Christmas Countdown: Day 19 – The Birth of the Atomic Age ⚛️ 🎄 In the 1930s, the Cavendish cyclotron, led by John Cockcroft, revolutionized nuclear physics. Its D-shaped "dees" accelerated particles to smash atomic nuclei, sparking the atomic age! 🌌 #Cavendish
